Inland Fisheries Service News
Woods Lake navigation light repaired
The navigation light at Woods Lake has been repaired. We received reports in February that the navigation light at the Woods Lake boat ramp was not working. Last week Neil Morrow headed out to Woods Lake to make the repairs. We would like to thank the anglers who reported the fault. If you see something...
Mersey River flow to be reduced
Hydro Tasmania will be reducing the flow at Mersey River at Liena to 1.5 cumecs tomorrow (2 March). The target flow for the Mersey at Liena is presently 1.7 cumecs and declining, and tomorrow will be at approximately 1.5 cumecs. As there is an outage of Rowallan power station starting on Monday 6 March the...
BRONTE LAGOON PICNIC SHELTER & SURVEYORS MONUMENT UPGRADE
A notice from the Southern Highlands Progress Association: The Southern Highlands Progress Association has undertaken the upgrade of this site over the summer with the assistance of Central Highlands Council. The council regravelled both the parking areas, provided the materials for repairs to the shelter and a new information panel at the monument about its...
Latest carp update
This quarterly report looks at October to December 2016. This quarter we removed 289 carp from Lake Sorell. This is compared to 480 carp between October and December 2015. We expected less because there are less carp left in the lake. This season we used a very different strategy to catch the carp than last...
Temporary closure of Brushy Lagoon Road for bridge replacements
A notice from Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania Bridges on the Brushy Lagoon Road near Westbury that were damaged by the flood event of 2016 are set to be replaced. In order for the new, permanent bridges to be installed, access to the Brushy Lagoon Road will be closed from 27 February 2017 to 27...
